When Anna Margaret Nancy Deskins was born on 13 January 1891, in Grundy, Buchanan, Virginia, United States, her father, John Witten Deskins, was 35 and her mother, Ada Zumach Ratliff, was 30. She married Arthur Smith on 3 November 1908, in Buchanan, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 22 March 1979, in Grundy, Buchanan, Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Clinchco, Dickenson, Virginia, United States.